Elevator Repair Service

Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is a New York City-based company that creates original works for live theater with an ongoing ensemble. The company’s shows are created from a wide range of texts that include found transcripts of trials and debates, literature, classical dramas, and new plays. Founded in 1991, ERS has created an extensive body of work that includes upwards of 20 original pieces. These have earned the company a loyal following and made it one of New York’s most highly acclaimed experimental theater companies. The company is best known for Gatz, its award-winning verbatim staging of the entire text of The Great Gatsby. ERS has received numerous awards and distinctions, including Lortel awards, a “Bessie” Award, and an OBIE Award for Sustained Excel­lence, as well as a Guggengheim Fellowship and Doris Duke Performing Artist Award for Artistic Director John Collins. ERS’s current project is a staging of James Joyce’s Ulysses, which will receive its world premiere at the Fisher Center at Bard College in summer 2024. Visit ERS online at www.elevator.org.